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Health and safety

Health and Safety Warm ups    Warm ups are so vital because it protects us from harming ourselves during our performances and rehearsals. For example, doing physical warm ups like stretching arms etc. potentially protects from something like pulling a muscle. Other forms/ types of warm ups that we put in practice are vocal warm ups. These warm ups are also key because it helps with our speech, particularly our articulation, and clarity of our voices when speaking on stage. The sort of practices that we do is humming and pretending to chew imaginary chewing gum in our mouths, which really helps with exercising our mouths. We also partake in a lot of tongue twisters that are good for enunciation. For example, 'red lorry, yellow lorry', She sells sea shells on the sea shore' etc. We work on our voice projection as well by choosing one of our lines from the play and shouting as loud as we can, almost as if we are trying to be heard from a hill away, this practice i...